During his presidential campaign and subsequent battle over a health care law, Mr. Obama quieted crowds with the story of his mother’s fight with her insurer over whether her cancer was a pre-existing condition that disqualified her from coverage.

In offering the story as an argument for ending pre-existing condition exclusions by health insurers, the president left the clear impression that his mother’s fight was over health benefits for medical expenses.

But in “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,”author Janny Scott quotes from correspondence from the president’s mother to assert that the 1995 dispute concerned a Cigna disability insurance policy and that her actual health insurer had apparently reimbursed most of her medical expenses without argument….

A White House spokesman chose not to dispute either Ms. Scott’s account or Mr. Obama’s memory, while arguing that Mr. Obama’s broader point remained salient.

Fake false but accurate?!

“We have not reviewed the letters or other material on which the author bases her account,” said Nicholas Papas, the spokesman. “The president has told this story based on his recollection of events that took place more than 15 years ago.”

This is the standard response of the memoirist: These are my memories. This is how I remember it. Even if I am mistaken, there is truth in the way this story has become part of me. (That notion is expressed beautifully in the interview at the end of the audiobook version of the thoroughly delightful “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir.”)

But I don’t accept that the President could have an innocently false memory about this story, which he milked dramatically, as Byron York describes here:

“I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn’t thinking about how to get well, she wasn’t thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence,” Obama said in September 2007.

“She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn’t have to reimburse her for her medical bills,” Obama added in January 2008.

"The insurance companies were saying, ‘Maybe there’s a pre-existing condition and we don’t have to pay your medical bills,’ " Obama said in a debate with Republican opponent Sen. John McCain in October 2008.

Those terrible, heartless corporations have been a theme of the Obama presidency. He has been trying to structure American brains around that idea, so he can win acceptance of policies that most Americans don’t want, and that story of his personal agony played an important role in pushing through an immense federal power. Ann Althouse

Obama LIED using his own mothers death for political gain. Therre is no more low life scumbag than obama!

VOTE OUT THE ILLEGAL ALIEN AMERICAN HATIG LYING RACIST GOD HATING ABOMINATION TO GOD IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

It is a recently "coined" new word found on a T-shirt on eBay. Getting really close to the bone! Read this one over slowly and absorb the facts that totally are within this sentence!

Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

HellFire

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June 09, 2012

Imagine that, the word scumbag came up and POWIE, up pops liberatedwoman.

HellFire

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June 09, 2012

Hardie har har, lw....

Waylefty

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June 08, 2012

I am right admit it.

HellFire

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June 08, 2012

Where to begin...Ok, yes I do expect elected officials to be honest, have high morals and do their best for people that put them there. Read their oaths.

Obama has broken his, committed numerous traitorous acts.

My arguments are not the document would be accepted, they are the document is not genuine.

You are correct assuming embarrassment would be a contributing factor, but also wide spread effects of legislation involving obammie could and most likely would be challenged. Weighed and considered I find the chaos and cost would not be justified.

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lase

Your comment is so far left it has yet to come home.

Waylefty

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June 08, 2012

Thank you.

What exactly does that last sentence mean?

Lunch hour over I am off to work. YES A LEFTY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS. What your take on that?

laselva

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June 08, 2012

I believe we are witnessing a true de-evolution miracle here. "Waylefty" has sailed so far left he's right, way right, other side of the planet right. I haven't read any comments on the subject of a 50 year-old birth announcement in the Honolulu paper. I'd like to see your take on that. Who is responsible for overlooking Obama's citizenship issues? Where was the State Department, the FBI, the Illinois and Federal attorney generals, the NSA, CIA, SS, the voting commissions, the vetting folks at both the Republican and Democratic parties? All these people had plenty of time and resources to out Obama long before he ran for President. This issue is dead, and those thinking there is any truth to it are afraid to face the reality that they've been bamboozled.

Spying on US citizens. That's worthy of your time left on this planet

Waylefty

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June 08, 2012

Politician applying his trade, did you expect honesty, integrity or what is best for the American people as a whole?

If, in fact Obama’s birth certificate is not real his serving as elected an official for all these years would be the scandal of the century. Real or faked to avoid that type of embarissment the document would be declared authentic.